The skin of the face is tense, chapped, hard, and rough. The skin of the face is very tender, irritable, and ulcerates easily. Spasms in the face, with distortion and contraction of the features. Subjective. Neuralgic facial pains, spreading to the eyes, forehead, and ears, with contraction of the jaw; facial neuralgia, especially on the left side, spreading from the head to the teeth, changing all the features (very marked).
Wants to scratch and squeeze his face constantly, with restlessness and ill-humor. Smarting pains in the face, as if there were thousands of insects in it. Lips. Lips dry, black, fuliginous, as in typhoid fever. Lips red, dark, chapping and bleeding easily. The lips thick, hard, tense, and frequently distorted. Spasmodic pains in the jaws, with sensation as if they would be dislocated and fractured.
Mouth
White coating on the tongue, with a red tip. Tongue covered with a whitish-brown fur, smooth and slimy (fifth day). Mucous membrane of the mouth pale (fifth day). Teeth. The teeth become denuded of the gums and loose. Odontalgia, with convulsive and continuous pains in the teeth, causing great despondency.
Burning lancinating pains, especially in the carious teeth, spreading to the cheeks, eyes, and temples; aggravated at night, or when coming in contact with food, especially cold or spiced food. Gums. The gums swollen, red, dark, bleeding easily.
Abscesses of the gums. Ulcerated fungoid gums, discharging a bloody pus. Tongue. Pruriginous eruption on the tongue and tonsils. Tongue burning, thick, heavy, and ulcerated, with difficulty of speech. Very painful pimples on the tongue. Dry rough tongue, as if glazed thick coat. The tongue seemed paralyzed. General Mouth. Bad odor from the mouth. Ulceration of the buccal cavity and fauces. Mouth dry, pasty, and full of saliva, with nausea. Great acidity in the mouth and throat, with continual nausea. Taste. Bitter taste in the mouth, that is pasty and disagreeable as after a debauch, with great thirst.
Bitterness in the mouth and even in the oesophagus. During the fever the water always tastes bad; he wishes to drink only wine or sour drinks, notwithstanding that the wine aggravates the fever. Perversion of the taste, desire for highly-seasoned food, which tastes like ordinary food.
Throat
A dry scratching sensation in the throat (soon). Rough soreness of the throat (first day). Roughness of the throat and soreness of the eyes (second day). Accumulation of much mucus in the throat, and copious painful salivation. Ulceration and gray spots, as if diphtheritic, in the throat. Gastric mucus, with bitter taste and burning in the throat. Water and food are arrested in the throat and oesophagus, and sometimes pass into the larynx, producing cough. Burning, lancinating, and pulsative pains in the throat. Great dryness of the throat and mouth, with desire to drink constantly. Spasmodic constriction in the throat, with impossibility to swallow, and attacks of suffocation. Inflammation and swelling of the tonsils, so that nothing could be swallowed, with sensation of strangulation, swelling of the submaxillary and cervical glands. Abscess and suppuration of the tonsils. Submaxillary glands swollen and painful.
Stomach
Thirst. Called for water (after three hours). Eructations.
Constant eructations. Constant eructations of a very sour fluid.
Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea all the afternoon by spells. Nausea, for three hours, followed by profuse vomiting, of an intensely sour fluid. Nausea, and attempts to vomit, when the child was placed in a sitting posture (fifth day). Violent vomiting (first day). Sudden attack of vomiting and purging. Vomiting three different times. Began to vomit an hour after supper, and continued to vomit every few minutes, for about an hour; vomited a watery sour- smelling substance, with much retching after another hour. The fluid vomited is so sour that the teeth are set on edge. Stomach. Sourness of the stomach, but more particularly the discharge of the nose and roughness of the throat. Constant distress in the epigastric region, with cutting pains in the stomach and bowels, and a good deal of rumbling. Burning distress in the stomach and region of the gall bladder. Dull, heavy, aching distress in the stomach. Very severe sharp pains in the stomach, all day and night. Pain in the epigastrium (first day). Appetite and Thirst. Great hunger, with excessive thirst, drowsiness while drinking. Intense hunger or anorexia. Desires spices, tobacco, coffee, or strong liquors. Delicate appetite, with contraction and burning in the stomach, and sensation as if it were full of thorns, which prick it. No desire for salt, although it relieved some stomach symptoms. Ardent thirst, with desire for sour or spirituous drinks. Febrile thirst, with heat and horripilation.
Eruption and Hiccough. Frequent spasmodic eructations, taking away the breath, especially some hours after eating.
Regurgitation of acrid, acid, and bitter substances. Convulsive hiccough, with frequent regurgitation. Watery mucus or bloody matter, with burning in the stomach and chest, especially in the afternoon, at night, and when in motion. Nausea and Vomiting. Nausea, with spasms, anxiety, and cold sweats. Nausea and vomiting after the lease movement and after cold drinks.
Fatiguing nausea, without being able to vomit. Continual nausea and efforts to vomit, with burning in the throat, extending to the intestines, tearing pains and horrible cramps in the stomach. Nausea and vomiting; the mouth constantly full of saliva. Though hungry, yet unable to eat on account of nausea and vomiting. After eating or drinking nausea, gastralgia, and colic. Flat things, as also motion and walking, aggravate the nausea and vomiting. Frequent efforts to vomit, in the evening, after food, or about mealtime, even when nothing is eaten. Painful effort to vomit. It seems as if the lungs were a mass of lead, compressing the stomach and impeding the vomiting. Vomiting of food and bile, as after indigestion.
Efforts to vomit, accompanied by headache. Desire to vomit and to defecate at the same time. Desire to vomit, very painful, although he has the sensation of emptiness in his stomach. Desire to vomit, with tightness in the stomach, extending to the back.
Profuse easy vomiting in gushes. Repeated vomiting, with great effort and sensation, as if all his bowels would come up; it seems to him as if his stomach and bowels were torn and detached. Vomiting, with diarrhoea; spasms in the extremities; chills over the back and extremities; pressure and constriction in the epigastrium; pressure and constriction in the epigastrium, ardent thirst, labored respiration, sunken countenance, and ashy face; extreme debility, great restlessness, and agitation; vertigo, intoxication, and somnolence. Vomiting, with cerebral congestions, paroxysmal cough, sweat on the face, lachrymation, epistaxis, and fear of asphyxia. Vomiting, with hunger, diarrhoea, and sensation of constriction in the throat. Vomiting the food undigested, which has lain for a long time in the stomach. Vomiting of mucus during the night. Vomiting of froth and green mucus. Bilious vomiting, with lancinating, piercing, and tearing pains in the stomach, spreading to the liver. Vomiting of bilious matter, gray and black, or watery, with white flakes, like curdled mile; stools of the same nature, and rapid loss of strength. Vomiting, with spasms in the bladder, and involuntary evacuation of the bladder and bowels. Vomiting of black blood. Vomiting of blood and bile mixed. Vomiting of lumbrici. Vomiting of bitter and acrid matter. Stomach. Distensive pains in the stomach; sensation of sponges, which swell and distend it. Pressive spasmodic pains, with constriction of the stomach, with oppression, lamentation, and desire to bend himself. Spasmodic pains and sensation as if the pylorus were being eaten away, with vomiting of decomposed food and faeces. Pressure and burning in the epigastrium, with sensation as if it were pierced and torn. Pain in the stomach, with enervation, irascibility, increasing even to furor.
Neuralgic pains and sensation of ulceration and perforation of the stomach. Pain in the stomach, with inclination to lie on the left side and to double himself up, forming a circle.
Sensation as if the stomach were always full of hot water, with nausea, oppression, and debility. Sensation as of wind and of thorns in his stomach. Smarting and itching in the stomach, as if there, or other pains, as if from tumors and ulcers.
Abdomen
Great distension of the bowels, with flatulence (after four hours, first day). Distension and rumbling of the bowels, which seemed to fill up the whole abdomen (nine hours after dose, second day). Still a great deal of rumbling in the bowels, which extended over the whole abdomen, but not as painful (after four hours, first day). Abdomen distended and tympanitic (fifth day). The intestines seemed to be extended to a great degree, and were very painful (after four hours, first day). Relief after flatulent discharges (after four hours, first day).
Born in 1837in Westminster, Vermont. . He was an orthodox doctor who converted to homeopathy
Dr. Allen compiled the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica over the course of 10 years.
In 1881 Allen published A Critical Revision of the Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica.